A New Understanding of Affairs for Effective Assessment and Clinical Treatment
Author:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
Author:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
Author:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
Author:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
How to "Build a Bridge" to Sexual Desire
Barry McCarthy • 2/20/2018
By Barry McCarthy - Contrary to media myths, movies, and male braggadocio, sex is seldom 100 percent successful, especially as men age. By a certain age, men need to learn what most women already know: good, satisfying, pleasurable sex, particularly in midlife and beyond, is more a matter of intimate teamwork than of physical hydraulics.
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A Guide to the Four Types: Traditional, Soulmate, Emotionally Expressive, Complementary
Barry McCarthy • 5/9/2017
By Barry McCarthy - What is a sexual style? It has to do with recognizing how different elements of a couple's sexual experience form a pattern—their way of initiating sex, how they pleasure each other and engage in erotic scenarios, the role of intercourse in their lovemaking, the afterplay scenarios they prefer, and the meaning sex has for them and its place in their relationship.
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Navigating the Intimate Issues
Authors:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
MARTY KLEIN, PHD
JOE KORT, PHD, LMSW
TAMMY NELSON, PHD
Authors:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
MARTY KLEIN, PHD
JOE KORT, PHD, LMSW
TAMMY NELSON, PHD
The Importance of Finding Meaning, Recommitting, and Achieving Sexual Recovery
Barry McCarthy • 6/15/2016
By Barry McCarthy - Recovery from an extramarital affair asks a lot of partners. They must not only process painful feelings, repair the rupture of trust, and share their deepest vulnerabilities, but also take steps to build a new, resilient bond, both emotionally and sexually. Allocating the right amount of time to deal with the affair and determining when partners are ready to focus on the present and future marital bond is a struggle for both clinicians and couples.
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Clinical Strategies for Sexual Issues in Therapy
Author:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
Author:
BARRY W MCCARTHY, PHD, ABPP
Effective Therapy for When Erectile Dysfunction Strikes
Barry McCarthy • 1/6/2015
Adolescent and young-adult men learn that erections are easy, automatic, and most important, autonomous. The Viagra media blitz both feeds and amplifies this male performance standard. Indeed, for men, the largest factor causing inhibited sexual desire is fear of erectile failure. But by a certain age, men need to learn what most women already know: good, satisfying, pleasurable sex, particularly in midlife and beyond, is more a matter of intimate teamwork than of physical hydraulics.
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Why the Promise of Cure Far Exceeds the Reality
Barry McCarthy • 9/18/2014
Contrary to media myths, movies, and male braggadocio, sex is seldom 100-percent successful, especially as men age. The most important fact for our sex-saturated society to accept is that 5 to 15 percent of all sexual experiences among well-functioning couples are dissatisfying or dysfunctional. In other words, contrary to the cultural myth of ecstasy all the time as the norm, almost all happy, sexually fulfilled couples experience lousy sex occasionally.
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Sex, Lies, and the Long Road Back: Recovering from an Extramarital Affair
Barry McCarthy • 3/1/2013
Healing from an extramarital affair is rarely a simple process, especially when embarrassing sexual secrets and incompatibilities are exposed.
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